Bob and I are thrilled to have Lastenia Montoya teaching Biblical Values in the local public elementary school.  Her life is impacting the first thru sixth grade students, but also the teachers of the school. 

Recently, one of the teachers confided a huge need in her family.  This teacher's younger sister was in depression.  She was convinced that the message we proclaim with our mouths is the same message that we live.  Profesora Iris said, "I have seen the lives of our transformed neighbors.  They are living proof of what your church believes.  Would you come help our family?"

Pray with us that God's Word shared during different visits to their home would result in transformed lives.

Since 2002 Bob, me and/or a representative from our More Than Conquerors Church has been teaching Bible in Nuevo Mundo (New World) High School. 

This year Rafael is sharing his faith with the 297 students. 

At Rafael's invitation, some of the students have started attending the Sunday afternoon soccer rallies at our church property.  Pray that God's powerful Word would bring these students and their families into a life that gives peace, stability and eternal salvation.

Also, God's Word is being shared with pre-kinder through 11th grade at a private school, Southwest School. 

Felicia and Stephany have given two years of their lives to the students and families of this school.  Ask God to bless the Biblical message in the lives of these families and students.  Pray that we will have volunteers for this coming 2010-2011 school year.

Amidst abnormally early rains the rehab construction goes on!

Praise the Lord with us for the raising of the first roof!

Southwest School 11th grade students continued their social project with us April 24th by pouring the first septic tank lid! 

Sometimes construction on the side of a mountain can be advantageous if you have the right pieces laying around.  Go gravity!!!  We'll explain below.

Bob didn't have to get knee deep in concrete, but he did carry his weight in the soupy, gray goo! 

You must remember that this concrete work was done in the mountains of rural Honduras.  No cement trucks, no ready mix concrete bags!  With five to seven gallones of water, one bag of cement, six small buckets of gravel and five small buckets of sand you can come up with a mixture that will slide down Bob's home fashioned concrete shoot!  The 80' long concrete shoot was made with the aluminum gutters that go between the green house roof sections!  Wha-la!

Praise our God and King with us today for safety as the men from the rehab center put up the rafters. 

Only three more rows of adobe blocks are needed on the far wall.  Each evening plastic and/or boards have to be placed over the walls to protect them from the daily rains that would wash the adobes away.  Notice the cement columns and corners.  A ring beam of cement will be placed on top of the entire building when all the walls are up.  

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

This is the progress made to date.

Multipurpose building. 

Provisional dormitory, ultimate vocational workshop.

God has begun a new work in the lives of our unmarried couples!

On April 13th, 2010 a civil wedding was performed in the home of Attorney Hazel Margarita.

Arturo and Yaimy took God's Word to heart.

How we thank God for this act of faith to formalize their relationship.  It is a step of obedience to God's Word that will impact their children, the entire congregation and our community.

Church member and lawyer, Hazel Margarita, read pieces of Ephesians 5  "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh....Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her....the wife must respect her husband." and Hebrews 13 "Marriage should be honored by all".

Bob and I are praising God for the impact Arturo and Yaimy's wedding and step of faith may have on the rest of our unmarried couples.  Pray with us for a ripple effect of future marriages.

Church of God, we present the happy couple!  

These are the things you would see in La Esperanza this March!

Acacia trees in bloom.

Walls finished on the first rehab center building.  Thanks Randy!

Sharing the Gospel message...

 ...in our neighborhood school...

...and in the Guangololo...

...mountaintop school.

La Esperanza's prison ministry (Sorry, this is the best photo ).

Come get acquainted with our city. 

Please pray with us for minds and hearts to be opened to Biblical Truth.  Many individuales are caught in the lies of traditional religions. 

Then, join us in enjoying life in Honduras!

Faith Memorial Church CCU, Lancaster, Ohio, rejoiced as four Department of Lempira men graduated from their three month rehabilitation program. 

Again, Bob and I thank you for standing with us in ministry!

Enjoy!

The rewards are defiantly worth it! 

During the first team's visit, Salvador was awarded his diploma for the three month rehab program. 

Continue to pray with us for transformed men and their families!  Keep praying with us for the tranformation of our city, La Esperanza.

Bob and I invite you to see more photos of the teams' construction project of the Rehab Center.  Go to Trinity Evangelical United Methodist Church's web site at http://www.mytrinity.us/.  At the bottom of the page is a section that says photos and videos.  You can find the Honduras photos there. 

Many families are depending on your prayers for the construction of this drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. 

Each morning the men from the rehab center come work on the construction site.

From the well, located at the bottom of the property, pipe lines were laid off, dug by hand up this steep mountain, and then tested to see how much water the well will provide.  Keep praying!

Rehab Director Arturo and Bob want chopping with machetes to find the best spot for the septic tanks.

The men work hard on the site.  Remember, these men are not just trying to quit drinking or doing drugs they are changing their life styles.  Manual labor is a rude awakening for many of them.

Of course Arturo's boys love to come spend time on the mountain.  These goats should soon provide milk for the center.

The views are extraordinary!  Look south...

...look west...

...look north...

...then look east toward the south part of La Esperanza.   Each view provides a panorama of God's great outdoors!

 
I close with a precious site!  Recently Benjamin and Paula's family purchased a milk cow for their family!  They live next to the rehab center.  What a thrill to experience their high emotion as they reported the birth of twin heifers! 

Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say rejoice!

Our son Joshua is very excited to have attained a new step up in his aviation career. 

He recently spent two weeks in Texas receiving training to be a "Captain in Command" pilot.  He has flown as co-captain for four years in a corporate Citation Jet.  

Erin, Josh's wife, sometimes takes a break from being mom to fly contract in this airplane keeping up her piloting skills. 

Their son Jackson is now walking, starting to talk and as precious a little boy you will ever meet.  Obviously, we love them all. 

Jesus did not entrust his ministry to independent believers - he established a spiritual family.  We as believers are His family, His church.

Hugs, emotion packed greetings and dozens of conversations to get re-acquainted filled the Evangelical Holiness Church's 2010 annual meeting.  Since 1914 the thread of the Gospel's influence through World Gospel Mission and its pioneering missionaries has born fruit.  Two-hundred twenty churches from all parts of Honduras were represented in the annual business meetings.   

An official ministry for the family was established and presented during this year's annual meeting.  Kathy served on a panel discussion with Fatima de Pacheco (pastor's wife and professional counselor), Dr. Belzasar Nuñez (pastor and director of theological studies of the national church) and Natanael Padilla (university professor and professional counselor).

Ordination of three pastors was a great part of the meetings.  Our cohort, Larry Overholt ministering in Choluteca southern Honduras with his wife Angie are pastoring the Shalom Evangelical Holiness Church. 

The second pastor ordained by our national church was Mario Oliva.  Pastor Mario ministers to the inmates of our city's prison and encourages several churches in the surrounding villages.

The third pastor that was conferred the title of reverend is AMSLA, Latin American Holiness Mission Agency, Missionary to Mexico, Danny Hilton Pineda.  Danny, his wife Pastor Carminda and son Samuel serve in their second church plant in the Bajia of Mexico.  This pastoral couple pastored the More Than Conquerors Evangelical Holiness Church in 2004-2007. 

In Christ's Family we are brothers and sisters. 

The New Testament regards the duty of living by example as a necessity in the Christian faith.  Whatever might happen to us as brothers and sisters in the faith, spread all over the world, let us fulfill our role living the faith and praying for one another, giving so that others might hear the message of freedom.